Will Ming

In the imperial study room, Li Chengde, who was a little out of his mind, looked at Li Xian in fear.He bowed his head and trembled slightly.Speaking of it, he didn't know what was wrong, but every time he saw Li Xian, he felt a kind of fear from the bottom of his heart.At the very least, it seemed that he really had the fear from the bottom of his heart.

The room still smelled of sandalwood, but Li Chengde's heart couldn't settle down at all.

"Scared?"

Li Xian sat on the chair and asked after taking a sip of tea.

"is not it!"

Li Chengde, who was in a daze, said with some panic: "The emperor's uncle is doing things, and my nephew does not dare to be afraid, and he must not be afraid."

"anyway……"

Li Xian put down the teacup in his hand and said, "You are the emperor now, and the most important thing an emperor should have is courage... I am telling you this now, not just pretending to be hypocritical. It seems... It seems that your temperament is the most lacking. What you need is courage, of course, and tenacity, you are like weeds on the wall swaying back and forth in the wind, whichever side of the wind is stronger, you bow in the direction of the wind and salute."

"But there is still a paranoia in your bones. Paranoia without courage will often make you more painful, and even do some crazy things that you can't control yourself. I don't know, you shouldn't be forced to sit in a place where you don't It's really too much pressure on you to sit in the seat you want to sit in...but you haven't learned how to be free."

"You are unwilling."

Li Xian said lightly.

"Nephew dare not!"

"After you entered the Tai Chi Palace, you lived and ate in the Imperial Study Room... you rarely went back to the bedroom, and you rarely went outside. You like to sit at the desk in the Imperial Study Room and write, and you like to write with a vermilion pen."

"Nephew... nephew is just boring."

"You don't have to worry about anything."

Li Xian looked at him and said seriously: "Gu won't kill you, but I don't want to see anything nasty either."

He pointed to the bookshelf and said: "There is a secret passage in this royal study, do you know?"

"Nephew doesn't know..."

"You don't know, but Li Yuan knows. You said just now that you and I don't dare to be afraid... If everyone didn't show up at the door of the Imperial Study Room in time, would Li Yuan successfully leave Taiji Palace after killing Miki? Miki is Li Yuan doesn't know about lonely people, but you do... Do you understand what Gu said?"

"Nephew is wrong!"

Li Chengde knelt down with a plop, not daring to raise his head.

"It was not Li Yuan who came up with this method, but you. No matter how flustered Li Yuan was at the time, he would not think that he could get out by pretending to be a eunuch. But you knew you could try it, because Miki was a lonely person, so People from the Military Inspection Department, so wearing Miki's clothes to sneak out of the Tai Chi Palace may not be successful. This is not a difficult thing to deduce. I don't want to delve into whether you did it out of fear, whether you were worried that you would be killed or it was true. I wanted Li Yuan to run away, but you were wrong after all."

Li Xian looked at Li Chengde, and said word by word: "Also, don't pretend to be frightened in front of Gu anymore. Your fear is real, but it's not like what you show. The Li family There is no fool or idiot in the family, and everyone in the Li family is very good at acting... Gu has seen this very clearly a long time ago."

After hearing these words, Li Chengde's complexion really became extremely ugly.

"Actually, you don't need to think about it carefully. You can guess the reason why you let Li Yuan go. As long as Li Yuan and Li Shimin don't die, you can continue to sit on the throne, even if you are an emperor with no real power. On the contrary, If all the foreign enemies are wiped out alone, then you are meaningless as an emperor, what you are afraid of... is actually this."

"When Xu Shiji brought you to Chang'an, he said that you were terrified, but not really terrified. He said that he saw ambition in your eyes. Although you hid it very carefully, you still couldn't hide it from him. Maybe you are like this I planned to..."

Li Xian stood up, walked slowly in front of Li Chengde and said, "Sit on the dragon chair first, don't worry about whether you have real power or not. Because you are the emperor, and the common people have some foolish fear and blind trust in the emperor du. There are still many people who are against Gu, the common people, and the courtiers who are against Gu. They are all people you can use. As long as you sit on the dragon chair for long enough, you will find a way to overthrow Gu."

"Is it right?"

Li Xian knelt down, looked at Li Chengde's pale face and said, "Li Yuan entered your imperial study, and you were so frightened that you fell to the ground... It's also fake, you are acting for Gu to see."

"You can't wait for me to fight Li Yuan, you can't wait for Li Shimin to fight back."

Li Xian patted Li Chengde on the shoulder and said with a smile: "You don't need to be afraid of anything, because you are right. Before all the foreign enemies are wiped out, your throne is still stable. I will not move you, you can still Live as before."

He stood up and walked slowly to the door.

"The secret passage in the emperor's bedroom has been blocked, so the one in the imperial study is meaningless... Although I don't know how many times Li Yuan used the secret passage to come to the imperial study to discuss with you, and I don't know if you often go there Secret way to go to the dormitory to ask Li Yuan for advice, but you can live in the dormitory permanently in the future, you don’t have to go back and forth like this... In addition, the gate of the dormitory will be guarded by military inspectors, so it is very safe.”

Li Xian glanced back at Li Chengde, the smile on the corner of his mouth was particularly cold.

"You killed Li Yuan because you were afraid that Gu would know...you and him had conspired a long time ago, but no matter what...Gu thank you, because it is very difficult for Gu to kill himself."

On the fifth day after the bleeding day, Emperor Li Chengde was so frightened that he was too weak to go to court, so he decided to rest in the palace until he recovered.

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On September [-]th, Pei Ji, the first Nayan after the founding of the Tang Dynasty, wrote a letter, requesting to return to his hometown due to his illness.The king of Yan persuaded him to stay three times, and Pei Ji's heart was firm. The king of Yan immediately gave him a hundred hectares of fertile land, ten thousand pieces of silver, and a thousand pieces of brocade, allowing him to retire.

On September [-]th, the right servant of Shangshu sent Yu Shinan, the secretary of Zhongshu ordered Liu Zhenghui, and the secretary of the Ministry of War Zhang Gongjin wrote a letter to plead guilty. The three of them, King Yan, were loyal and stayed in Chang'an. Zhang Gong, Minister of the Ministry of War, would like to descend to the Minister of the Ministry of Households.

On September [-]th, King Yan appointed Du Ruhui as prime minister, the prime minister of government affairs.

Xu Shiji was appointed Minister of the Ministry of War, Changsun Wuji Minister of Rites, Fang Xuanling the Minister of Household, Wei Zhengdu's imperial envoy, Pei Cao's Minister of the Ministry of Officials, Minister of the Ministry of Punishment, and Dugu Xue's official positions.

On September [-]th, the King of Yan ordered the Ministry of War to raise supplies, dispatched the deputy general of the Yanyun Army in Chang'an City, and led [-] troops to go south first.Changsun Wuji, the former minister of rites, had almost arrived at Wudang Mountain at this time, and the King of Yan sent an urgent message from the Military Inspection Office to ask Changsun Wuji to stay where he was, waiting for Luo Shixin's vanguard.

The armies waiting to go in the city gathered for training, and were ready to follow His Royal Highness King Yan at any time.

General Tiance's Mansion

Li Xian put down the book in his hand, and listened intently to the words of the following people.

In a row of chairs, sitting in the most front seat is Prime Minister Du Ruhui, followed by Minister of the Ministry of Households Fang Xuanling, Minister of the Ministry of Rites Pei Caozhi, Minister of the Ministry of War Hou Junji.

Pei Caozhi was the governor of Qi County during the Daye period, and together with Zhang Xutuo, a famous general in the late Sui Dynasty, was a barrier to peace and prosperity in Qi County. Because of Pei Caozhi in Qi County, Zhang Xutuo was able to have no worries. The army suppressed thieves.The two of them had a tacit understanding. It can be said that without Pei Caozhi's support behind them, there would be no victories in all battles of the Qi County Jingbing in the front.

After Qi County belonged to Yanyun Village, Pei Caozhi was appointed the prefect of Qi County, governing Qi and Lu counties, and his status among civil officials was second only to Du Ruhui.

This person is capable, and he was born in the direct line of the Yanyun Army, so it is normal for him to be in the top position, after all, there are not many civil servants in the Yanyun Army.

"My lord, Chang'an is tentatively decided... Do you think about sending troops so soon? I think it's better to wait a few more months. When the spring is warm in the coming year, the army will be rested and the food and grass will be ready. Besides, we can send troops from Dongping County, Qizhou, etc. The counties, the counties in the south of the Yangtze River, and Taiyuan mobilize troops, and at that time they can gather hundreds of thousands of elite soldiers and go south with a thunderous force...Even if Li Shimin can conquer the land of Jingxiang, it will be difficult to resist."

"My minister... seconded the proposal."

Pei Caozhi leaned slightly and said.

Li Xian hummed, and instead of answering, asked Hou Junji, "What do you think?"

Hou Junji pondered for a while and said: "When I first arrived in Chang'an, I shouldn't make more fallacies about things I don't know...but I dare not speak out the truth. The situation in Jingxiang, I think...you should pay attention to it as soon as possible. . Xiao Mian has 40 soldiers, unlike Dou Jiande's men who have more green forests. Before Xiao Mian used troops against Sichuan and Shu, and divided troops to garrison the counties, Li Shimin took advantage of the loopholes, so he attacked the city with less than 20 recklessly. Get ahead."

"Xiangyang City is trapped, but the defenders in the city are probably no less than [-]. Li Shimin is extremely difficult to conquer easily. Even if it is conquered, the loss of Li Shimin's troops in Xiangyang City will be huge. If the police soldiers sent by Xiao Mian to the southern expedition come back, I'm afraid No matter how difficult it is for Li Shimin to win, he can only hope for speed and conquer Xiangyang before Xiao Xian's elite soldiers come back to help... Therefore, although I don't have detailed information from the Military Audit Office, it is not difficult to analyze, The Battle of Xiangyang must be fierce."

"Taking advantage of this opportunity, the lord's army is going south, which is just the right time."

Li Xian hummed, then asked Fang Xuanling, "Does the household department have any money left?"

"Have!"

Fang Xuanling nodded and said: "If it is calculated with 10 horses, the army will have no worries. The money in the treasury is enough. Yang Guang is greedy for money, but he has saved a lot of money... from Xingluo warehouse and Liyang warehouse. Two batches of grain and grass have arrived, and the last batch will arrive in three to five days at the latest. Wang Qinian is a fast-track man. He only went to Dongdu for a month, and many bad debts have been sorted out. Dongdu